Appeal No. 2003-0653 Page 10
Application No. 09/861,268
the indention 28 on end 22 of rod 24. Accordingly, the subject matter of claim 15 is not
suggested from the teachings of the applied prior art.5
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the examiner to reject
independent claim 15, and claims 16 to 18 and 25 to 27 dependent thereon, under
35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 11 to 14 under
35 U.S.C. § 102(a) is affirmed; the decision of the examiner to reject claims 22 to 24
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) is reversed; and the decision of the examiner to reject claims
15 to 18 and 25 to 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
5 The test for obviousness is what the combined teachings of the references would have
suggested to one of ordinary skill in the art. See In re Young, 927 F.2d 588, 591, 18 USPQ2d 1089,
1091 (Fed. Cir. 1991) and In re Keller, 642 F.2d 413, 425, 208 USPQ 871, 881 (CCPA 1981).
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